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Ross O’Ceallaigh

Creator and Host, Green Urbanist Podcast

Ross O’Ceallaigh is an urbanist, sustainability educator and changemaker. He runs the Urban Wilding Hub, a nonprofit that promotes wilder nature in towns and cities as a proactive response to the climate and biodiversity crises. As an urban design and planning consultant, he has worked with local governments in England, Ireland and Nigeria on urban strategy and community engagement. A passionate advocate for climate action, Ross regularly speaks at events and hosts the Green Urbanist podcast.

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Emma Oldroyd, CMLI

Senior Lecturer, Landscape Architecture, Leeds School of Arts

Emma Oldroyd is an experienced chartered Landscape Architect with a diverse portfolio in strategic frameworks, masterplanning, design and regeneration projects gathered over 20 years working mainly in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Previous Landscape Lead at Arup, Ireland, Emma is now a Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University and Associate Landscape Architect at DRaW Landscape Architects.
Emma's experience spans high level strategic and design work through to hands on work with communities. Emma is passionate about how high-quality, multi-functional and regenerative places are conceived, made and kept. On behalf of Arup Ireland, her work for TII on the Design and Delivery of Soft Landscape Treatments in Urban Transport Environments, her work on Galway’s Open Space Strategy and the Southern Region’s NbS and BGI Framework set standards, recognised the importance of process and participation, and enabled the monitoring of change. Emma has masterplanned many places where it’s been important to get the big moves right, as early on in the design process as possible. Emma has co-designed several small parks in London and now works closely with Parks & Green Space forums to help close gaps between aspirations, knowledge and delivery, which is all about incremental place-shaping rather than grand gestures. 

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Stephen O’Malley

CIVIC

Stephen is a Founding Director & Chief Executive of Civic, and a member of Taoiseach’s Dublin City Taskforce. Recognising that the quality of our built environment is intrinsically linked to the wellbeing of our natural surroundings, Stephen champions striving for excellence and harmonising with nature to develop climatically resilient spaces that enhance lives and provide enriching experiences for our communities. As a Dubliner, he is passionate about urban infrastructure and sets about his work aiming to engineer less, reaching first for nature-based solutions and applying these principles with a high degree of emotional intelligence, with projects including College Green Dame Street Public Realm and contributing to Ireland’s National Transport Authority SuDS Guidance. This creative and inclusive system thinking approach sets Civic apart and has seen Stephen recognised as an industry expert in his field. He is also an ICE Policy Fellow, an Architecture & Design Scotland Panellist, Fellow at the Landscape Institute in the UK, Institute Member of the Academy of Urbanism, a Design Council Associate and NLA Sounding Board member.

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Dima Zogheib

Director, ARUP

Dima is a Director of Urban Resilience Design. Trained as a landscape architect, she is a specialist in resilient, liveable and nature-positive cities working at the intersection of landscape, climate and cities. She has extensive international experience spanning over 30 cities globally, focused on future-proofing cities, integrated planning and design, and innovative public realm. She has led and delivered complex and large-scale projects from concept through to delivery, smaller-scale community initiatives and planning for resilience. Selected projects she has led and co-authored include the Oman Botanic Garden, the Green Infrastructure Masterplan for Thimphu (Bhutan), the environmental and economic feasibility of the Tirana Orbital Forest (Albania), the Agadir Green City Action Plan (Morocco), the University of Sarajevo Campus Masterplan (Bosnia and Herzegovina), and an award-winning design strategy for a Child-Friendly Belfast Dima also led award-winning research on Meanwhile Use for the Greater London Authority and developed resilience strategies for over 20 cities globally through 100 Resilient Cities and the World Bank—including Amman, Athens, Thessaloniki, Byblos, and Tashkent. She regularly speaks and writes about city design and planning through the lens of resilience, climate, people, and nature.

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Philip Doran

Teaching Fellow, UCD School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy

Philip J Doran is a Teaching Fellow in UCD's Landscape Architecture undergraduate programme and co-director of the Masters of Global Change Landscape Design. He is also a PhD candidate and practicing landscape architect under Philip J Landscape Architecture.

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Shauna Callaghan

Development Manager, The Land Development Agency

 As Development Manager, Shauna brings extensive expertise in urban planning and development, with experience spanning all stages of the development lifecycle. She specialises in stakeholder engagement and navigating complex planning processes, while driving design standardisation to meet critical affordability targets for delivering high-quality, affordable housing.

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Aaron Copeland

A Playful City, Dublin

Aaron is a co-founder and director of A Playful City, with over 20 years of experience working across education, public art and community-led placemaking. His practice is rooted in a deep belief in the power of collaboration, creativity and inclusive design to transform the public realm. Aaron has played a key role in shaping spaces that reflect the identity, needs, and aspirations of the communities who use them — from local neighbourhood interventions to large-scale urban strategies.

Aaron’s work has been recognised and awarded nationally as well as internationally for its innovative and impactful approach to public space and community engagement. He brings a unique ability to bridge sectors — working with local authorities, design teams and community stakeholders to develop creative, practical and participatory methodologies that unlock the potential of place.

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